#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

BEGIN {
  $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {
    die @_ if !defined($^S);
    die @_ if $^S;
    print "SIG{__DIE__} handling the following error: " . $_[0];
    exit(99);
  };
}
use Storable;

print "This script sucks\n";
die "I will now die because I suck";

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^^^ This seems to do what I want to do. perldoc -f die seems to think I should only need the "die @_ if $^S", but I've found the line before it with "die @_ if !defined($^S)" is also neccesary, at least in this example. According to perldoc perlvar: 
 $^S     Current state of the interpreter.

                   $^S         State
                   ---------   -------------------
                   undef       Parsing module/eval
                   true (1)    Executing an eval
                   false (0)   Otherwise

               The first state may happen in $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} handlers.
In my case, it seems only the "0" case is what I want to be handling directly.

In reply to Re^3: SIG{__WARN__}, Storable, and Log::Agent... by ph713
in thread SIG{__DIE__}, Storable, and Log::Agent... by ph713

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